Curriculum vitae

Ulrich Rothbauer has studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) and completed his Diploma in the Lab of Prof. Dr. Svante Pääbo working on the tRNA processing in human mitochondria.

For his PhD he joined the group of Prof. Dr. Walter Neupert revealing the pathomechanism of a mitochondrial disease. In 2003 he started his postdoctoral studies of epigenetic keyfactors in the lab of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Leonhardt at the LMU-Biocenter.

2006 he became an independent group leader starting his work on nanobodies. He established the chromobody technology to study endogenous proteins in living cells and developed novel screening strategies to identify chromobodies for cell cycle analysis, apoptosis studies, proteomics and protein-protein interactions.

2008 he founded the Biotech company ChromoTek, which develops and commercializes new technologies to perform cellular diagnostics and proteomics.

Until 2011 he was managing director of ChromoTek before he became full professor for pharmaceutical biotechnology at the University of Tübingen in 2011.

Grants

• BMBF „Validierung des Innovationspotenzials wissenschaftlicher Forschung VIP“: Validierung eines neuen, innovativen Verfahrens zum Nachweis komplexer regulatorischer Netzwerke in Tumorgewebe (October 2013), FKZ: 03V0798 / Fördersumme: 744.110 €
• DFG: Vollautomatisierte Mikroskopie-basierte zelluläre High-Content Analyse Plattform für Lebendzell-Mikroskopie (February 2012), FKZ: INST 37/822-1 / Fördersumme (DFG-Anteil): 237.500 €
• BMBF: Go-Bio Förderpreis II “Chromobodies: Innovative biomedizinische Forschung und Diagnostik mit fluoreszierenden Nanobodies” Förderkennzeichen: 0315109 / Fördersumme: 1.200.000 € (January 2011)
• BMBF: Go-Bio Förderpreis I “Chromobodies: Innovative biomedizinische Forschung und Diagnostik mit fluoreszierenden Nanobodies” Förderkennzeichen: 0315109 / Fördersumme: 1.500.000 € (January 2008)

Awards

• 2007 Publication Award (Center for NanoScience, LMU)
• 2007 GO-Bio Award I of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• 2008 Binder Innovation-Award (German Society of Cell Biology, DGZ)
• 2010 Publication Award (Center for NanoScience, LMU)
• 2010 GO-Bio Award II of the BMBF
• 2012 Award of the Innovation-Academy (BMBF)

Memberships

• Since 2001 Society for Biochemistry and Molecularbiology (GBM)
• Since 2009 Center for NanoScience (CeNS)
• Since 2010 Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS)
• Since 2012 Dechema (Frankfurt)

Governing Activities, Boards

• Since 2012 Member of the Supervisory Board of BIOPRO GmbH
• Since 2016 Divisional Director of Cell Biology at the Natural and Medical Institute at the University of Tuebingen
• Since 2017 Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports